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by flohofwoe 1018 days ago
> Joe Schmoe wanting to put together an email client ... and move on with their life.

Tbh, for that type of problem a smart Joe Schmoe wouldn't pick a tech stack like Rust in the first place, and instead just write a simple web app (because implementation details aside, the next problem is how to distribute the damn thing without "sideloading" or "potentially harmful download" warnings popping up all over the place).

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You're focusing on the "email" part when the point is the widget type itself, which signals to me we've reached some form of an end to this I guess.

(And that's not even going in to why one might not want to deal with the web)